TV shows and Movies listed on Netflix

This dataset consists of tv shows and movies available on Netflix. The dataset is collected from Flixable which is a third-party Netflix search engine.

In 2018, they released an interesting report which shows that the number of TV shows on Netflix has nearly tripled since 2010. The streaming service’s number of movies has decreased by more than 2,000 titles since 2010, while its number of TV shows has nearly tripled. It will be interesting to explore what all other insights can be obtained from the same dataset.

Main Task

Build a recommended engine to return maximum 10 movie names if an user search for a particular movie.

Interesting questions

  1. Target Audience in different countries
  2. Understanding what content is available in different countries
  3. Is Netflix has increasingly focusing on TV rather than movies in recent years.

source: https://www.kaggle.com/shivamb/netflix-shows

Steps:

  1. Data Preprocessing
  2. EDA
    • Program types on netflix
    • Top 20 countries with most content
    • Target audience in the top 10 countries (to answer question 1)
    • Genres in the US vs Korea (to answer question 2)
    • TV vs Movie Trend by Release Year and by Year Added to Netflix (to answer question 3)
  1. Movie Recommendation System

1. Data Preprocessing

2. EDA

Program types on netflix

Movie to TV contents ratio is 70:30 on netflix.

Top 20 countries with most content

Rank #1 is the US, followed by India and the UK. The US is more than 3 times of India in programs count.

The result is quite insteresting for Movie vs TV program split. Movie got higher share in US, but opposite result seen in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan - TV contents showed higher share.

Target audience in the top 10 countries

Target audience in the top 10 countries

In general, Asian countries (South Korea, India, Japan) have lower proportion on adult contents (26% - 44%) while western countries have higher proportion on adults contents (42% - 79%). For the extreme cases, Spain has almost 80% occupied by adults content while india only has 26% adults content. Most content available in india is kids programs.(72%)

More about kid content in India:

The world of cartoons and kids’ content has caught the fancy of many over-the-top (OTT) streaming players in India. The top six to ten platforms including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hotstar, Voot, Sony LIV and Eros Now — besides YouTube — have capitalised on the growing appetite for content created for kids or children in India. source: https://inc42.com/features/toons-and-beyond-indias-ott-players-take-baby-steps-into-edutainment-kids-content/

Let's have a look at the genres in US vs Korea

What content is available in different countries? Let say US vs Korea?

For South Korea, most contents are romantic tv shows (40%), followed by Crime TV shows (13%). While for the US, the program types are quite diverse, main programs cover Dramas, documentaries, comedies, children movies,...etc.

TV vs Movie Trend - Release Year

TV vs Movie Trend - Year_added to Netflix

Is Netflix has increasingly focusing on TV rather than movies in recent years?

The share between TV vs movie was similar in 2016 , then movie showed a big jump from 58% to 71% in 2017. Movie share reached the highest in 2018, occupying 74% of total. Yet, starting from 2019 TV share increased gradually, movie share dropped to 65% in 2020.

Probably due to covid-19, less movie launched and led to decrease in movie share?? Or simply because auidences' increasing interest in TV shows?!

3. Movie Recommendation System